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Report on Germany--No. 1:

GERMANY IS THE KEY

TO EUROPE'S DEFENCE

1

By Alexander

· Clifford

Here and there, tucked away beneath the pale-green tran- slucence of the young beechwoods, you can And the camouflaged headquarters. And in the head- quarters you can see the opera- tional maps, convincingly scrawled with red and blue chalk marks. There seema to be an Impres- sive number of divisions fighter possession of the hydrogen bomb are strictly temporary ad- ing along the 30-mile front,

vantages. And you must plan for the moment when Russia still has her immense Red Army and when she con give as good as she gets automically.

need from, the: Germung72

7

We need a

while the Allies defend' their country.

The best thing the Germans have to offer is themselves soldiers.

of a

The death noble noble Englishman

By "Windrush"

Wavell bocame Vicorey at i spar. The soldier's pole is falien | timo when the wartime revolt of

Across the calm, rolling 1. That Russla does not want; be the baitikud. What do wo "O withered is the garland of thei

war, as a matter of polley. Westphalian country-side

2. That Russia's superiority has We nood; on: the most negative:| These words of Strake the India, National Congress had powdered with blossom, glow so far been counterbalanced by basis, a calm, co-operative cleare, on the death of An- boon. suppressed Though tho ing with the ripe promise of | America's lead in the atom bomb. lian population.

challongs to the Government had. tony, came perhaps into some been put down, Indian feeling summer-the British Army If you are Montgomery and the country whose communications Bubscription Rates

Western Defence Chiefs doing and public services work smooth minds when the news was against Britain was extremely of the Rhine is holding exer- their planning HK$18.00

at Fontainebleau ly. We need to use up as little known of the end of Lord bitter. Wavell, with an imagina cises. (Hitler's panzer divi- you must accept the second rea- as possible of our own man-power | Wavell..

live feeling for subject. people, sot. sions, used to do their man- son. You must assume that war in administering it.

Field Marshal: Lord

himself, to romedy this. He tried- Wavell with Russia ir próbable, and you But also, more positively, we

to lead: back the national effort in. » oeuvres there too).

must prepare defence.

need all the help anyone can give.. was one of the great captains of

India on the lines, where the Bri- English history.. You must admit that America's And so we have to decide whe-regarded him as: the best British

The Germans tish and Indians would no longer lend with the atom bombs and ther or not to fight this battle commander in the past war. The ileular to bring into promthence be in conflict. He sougätt in par- with the best soldiers in Europe campaigns of Wavell against the the new planning departments of standing fly around watching Italians in the carly part of 1941 the Government; and hoped that. are among the most. audacious

the discussion of economie plank exploits of military history. They are essentially in what we like tween the Indian public and his.

would robuild the bridge be- to regard as the English tradition.

government:. dos means, by the use of surprise By Improvisation, by unortho and intelligence,. Wavell, with pitifully small forces, overthrew the trust which he won personally which from all communities, and made gnominious the very created the atmosphere in which large Italian armies.. It was, the the emancipation of india ulti- tradition of Drake and his cap mately became possible., it was thins against .tho unwieldy left to Lord Mountbatten to pre- Arntada..

side over the actual transition to freedom. Wavell had retired from his post as Viceroy in February 1947, partly because he found it repugnant to contemplate the But Mount- batten's achievements were based on Wavell's. Without Wavel there would have been trouble of gravest kind in post-war the

India.

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BIRTH

HUANG-On June 4, 1950, at

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п J. B. Huang. wife

It looks a good baltic in fact daughter, Jacqueline Arm-until you discover that four- Blyth.

fifths of the divisions are fleti- flous. And it is apt to make you think "What would the Inap look like

the Russians advanced tomorrow with real division on the whole Elbe front..."

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CORRESPONDENCE

COLUMN

The correspondence in this and other papers criticising the conduct of British troops

out of in- cidents that were trivial in

arosc

There are plently of them the unemployment figures in Western Germany today are round the 2,000,000 mark. And no one denies that they fight super- latively well even for a cause like Nazism, in which, it now appear not one of them ever really believed.

for.

throughout 1944 and 1045, and lt. was these: efforts; of his

Exactly what Montgomery and his stalls are planning is one hopes-a secret. But you can dis- cover a lot by following through the strict logic of certain non- military facts. If the Russians advanced to-

On

of basla

cold-blooded marrow they would get to the theoretical strategy, for instance,

partition of India, the Pyrenees in it might be best to leave a thin Channel and about a month. The estimate defensive screen to receive the varles slightly from one high Russian attack, retire behind the milltary circle to the next. But Pyrenees, and build up the re- you will find no one who seriously conquest of Europe in Spain. disputes It.

The problem of Western De- fence and the question of where the Germans in if they do it in-must start from this factual basis. The Red Army is far, far stronger than the the Atlantic Pact Powers put to- gether. It would win easily.

The Russians have some 25 combat divisions scattered along They have the Iron Curtain. scores more back in the satellite countries and in Russia Itself. They have an immense anns pro- duction and in particular an im-

themselves. But the implica-mense aeroplane production.

have the

Unthinkable

for

reverses.

his

The

not

Gus.

Place in history

are ab- the more Germans we had fight- wo lost mitically more thand ill, a great many of them were:

Certainly he had'

Later in 1941 Wavell was com- Only hope

pelled, by a Cabinet decision in This time, against the Russians, London, to divert part ofi hla have their lost forces to Greece. He warned they would

Lundon that; if his army was Eastern provinces to fight

are 10,000,000 people in weakened in this way, he would There

Germany Today Western

who not be able to hold his gains in to their the desert against the counter- enn hope to return rightful homes only through antiacka by the Italians, now rein

No amount of forced by the Germans. Russian defent.

Events collaboration with Communism turned out as he foresaw could get those homes buck, for armies suffered But that is impossible. Not they have already been given deplorable thing was that, as thei

coolness because Spain is not a member to Polish collaborators. Only war result of this affair, a

Thus as statesman: no less than. can do it.

seems to have grown up between as soldier Wavell will have his of the Atlantic Pact, but because

The

Germans would fight, they Wavell and Mr. Churchill

place in British history: Yet no French or Benelux statesman

fighting in and armics of all could conceivably put his signa- would be

Wise decision strangely enough, it was not as ture to such a scheme, No French their homes, and they would

soldier and statesman

that he The exact circumstances of or Benelux General Staff could have all the local knowledge

is ch

chiefly mourned. The ways in They

Incidents would these there is to have.

are still plan for it. There would be no

personality Probably It was a wise winnicates itself are often mysteri a French or have unrivalled opportunities for knoWTI.

politically by: Mr. point in arming

spying and sabotage and Fifth decision Benelux Army,

When people in England: to send', troops to Moreover, a Europe-ravaged by Columniam, for the Russians too Churchill

OC- Greece. By trying to aid Greece learned that Wavell was gravely a Russian blitz might turn out would be ighting from an

And we gained cupled zone of Germany. to be not worth reconquering.

by exposing surprised to discover how much These considerations solutely overriding. And their Ing on our side, the more loyal ourselves to teniporary defeat in personal concern it' coused them..

The tragedy was

They had come to regard' him sa one of the most' admirable char- the and co-operative would be the North Africa. power to call logical consequencó is that

that the disagreements between

acters of our generation. They tions derived from them are up, Instantly and without argu- defence of the nations of Western civilian population.

The whole point is: Is it safe Lord Wavell and London seem to had not realised until his denti so unjust that comment upon ment, as many of their citizens Europe does not consist in turn-

have ing them into a battlefield, but to arm them?always assuming have led to his withdrawal from how strongly his personality had A1 they need. They

operational command for nearly the matter seems warranted. obedient satellites. They have in keeping the war out of them. that we must plan for war.

all the rest of the war.

gripped them. never sought to impose himself ont It is always a moot point whe- the totalitarian privilege of sud- In other words, the battle must

be fought in Germany.

Take your choice There is a mystery why he was

their attention :- hò always shun- ther such letters should in fact den, secret and unexplained de-

actual not again employed in The logic goes farther be published. Some time ago

fighting. He became Commander-ned publicity..

There were all kinds of reasona America have that. It speelfies that the nations

Wo. canin-Chief in India, where his task for the respect in which he was a correspondent complained rather over a quarter of a mil- of Western Europe must main- de, plus one possibility.

was to prepare held. His whole career: 'showed' of the behaviour, in the lobby ion men in Europe-principally tain, in Germany, a defensive order the Germans into uniform, for two years

positions of simply as conscripts, under our armies and defences, not to direct

him the slave of duty. It had garrison troopa. The operational force in defensive of a cinema, of a couple of of the French Army is in sufficient strength to hold up the command. We can invite them in troops in action:

Beeta : a chequered career: he had in the defence of partners

When the Japanese war began, soldiers who were accused of trouble in Indo-China. The Dutch Initial Russian attack, And some-a

suffered injustles. and' had having laughingly blown Army has been tied up in where behind it must be a mobile Western Europe. Or we can try and disaster overtook Britain in carried it with quiet and winning

force large to do without them.

Malaya and Java, he was for a

dignity: (This gains admiration cigarette smoke into the faces Indonesia. America has only just counter-attacking

The possibility is that we shall very brief time the supreme' com-

more surely than glittering begun arming the Italian Ariny. enough to keep the war going of two Chinese young women.

success), And co-ordination of these vari- in Germany until all the mobilisa-wait so long that the Germans mander of all the allied forces in For some reason the sus-

ous national forces is only in tion and war-production plans of will be strong enough to force or South East Asia. But Malaya and way in on their Java had been overrun before he picion entered the mind that the planning stage.

all the Western nations have been blackmail their put into action.

own terms,

could set up a headquarters. He perhaps these women were

The battlefield

And one should, I suppose, add reverted to his post of Comman- accosting them. Certainly it

the remoter but still conceivable der-in-Chief in Delhi. i

be possibility that if they arc not Then in the middle of 1943 he is not the habit of the British

permanent Allied. forces asked to fight for us they will changed his role entirely, and be troops to do this sort of thing

In Germany, and Germany will agree to fight against us.

came Viceroy and General of India in one of the gist the humanitarian-the man to respectable girls. The

most critical periods of India's of original and unexpected ideas. on all kinds of subjects, Ideoa. correspondent said he merely

political history. desired to draw the attention

have which were a kind of inspired sense-it was there of the military authorities to the incident. Accordingly we phasised that the residents thought it best to do this always had their eyes on the direct, by sending the letter troops, whether they were minus the name of the writer on or off duty; and," he de- -to the Army Public Re-clared, they had proved them- lations Officer, so that en selves worthy ambassadors quiries could be instituted of Britain. In spite of the mis and action taken if consider- demeanours of the few, that

ed necessary.

cision,

Britain and

од

an

I

Two answers Bo the Red Army,

could ordinary military basis, count on winning hands down. And you have a choice of two not helped reasons why It has itself to this easy victory:

་

So there will have to large,

than

There are three things we can.

The storm in

West Africa.

in a

cocoa cup

By JOHN HALL

smiling, and

from

Twin worries 1 Like farmers in many

tree, is an-

|

What

Governor

Wavell might

He showed a kind of gentleness" in public: affairs. He was known. to be very versatile though also

very taciturn. His main civilian. interest. was actually, poetry.

The solider Imperturbable in. danger the very clover strate,

achieved if he been left in com- commen

mand in North Africa and if it which made Wavell - and oljo. had been he who had the dispost- there was his personal appeak-

I is latter days this TE-- tion of the men and equipment ance..

ted there? Remarkable as were fully which were ultimately concentra- flected his character very initi

He had a rugged hand- battle

the victories of Montgomery, someness. a kindly face, there are some who think that a scarred and much damaged in his campaign fought by Wavell might country's service.

One of the daily newspapers have developed on more original

summed him up particularly well: and unexpected lines.

*THIS

and the countrymer Strange thing people of India and Pakistan

If

Next time you munch 2 "You are being exploited!" chocolate or sip a cup of cocoa shout the agitators, and Alafa, tribute was deserved.

think of Yaw Akufo. Your who went to mission school, is e There is, unfortunately, a

The correspondence taste for chocolate is his live- regular churchgoer and very law-

It was a strange thing that this mourn the passing of a leader, the of

papers hood.

abiding, goes home worried, tendency to apply one rule of columns

Then there is the swollen shoot military gentus, whose fighting whom they never understood are always read conduct to the men in uniform here

For Yaw Akufo, 30 years of meance, and the agitators say the capacities were so unaccountably fully, except that he was a man of honour, ability, and almost un- British polley, drastically to cut left to rust for,so much of the waimited personal courage, who and another to the civilian. with interest, and they afford age, gentle,

should have turned to the civilian The man in the street in a valuable means of ventilat- black as boots, la a cocoa farmer. out every afectea

He lives in a village called AP- other ramp and senseless.

fob, and arts of government-at the very never sought an easy Hong Kong is not always ing public complaints. But werase, 25 miles Inland

Swollen shoot is a killer, saps moment when his contempories never refused a tough one.

winning their military he was not in the ranks of the a model of politeness. He can it does seem necessary to urge Accra, on the Gold Coast, British and destroys a fully-grown cocua were

laurels and should have dis- very greatest generals, he was tree in anything from two to tinguished himself as one of the one of our noblest Englishmen. It in fact be very rude. And correspondents to exercise

five years.

For any farmer who grows ablest and most humane Viceroys this went unspoken, it was only the scenes at bus stops very all due fairness and restraint,

because it was so plain." often are almost disgusting. not only in this particular

other nothing but cocoa the onset of of India. Yet people seem very willing controversy but in all mat- parts of the world, Akufo is very the disease means bear-ruin. The to rush into print whenever ters, especially when letters worried; worried about falling authorities pay compensation at 28. for every tree a soldier is, involved and to are published not under the prices and about a disease called the rate of

"awollen shoot" which threatens felled, plus 6 for every replace- be as reluctant to do so when full name of the correspon- the Gold Coast's vast acreage of ment seedling planted.

If swollen shoot hit Akufo and a civilian is the guilty party, dent but under a nom de cocoa, trees.

And if you like chocolate or his 300 trees were condemned he That is, perhaps, a minor plume. The risks of signing

cocoa, it is your worry, too, be- would draw £30 compensation, point, though not one to be a letter expressing an in-

cause nearly all your cocoa comes plus another £8 15s. If he re-. disregarded.

dividual viewpoint with so from the Gold Coast, and already planted.

"Free swollen shoot has reduced pro- It takes a cocon tree seven generala

to reach production, 30 of 300,000 tons a year to a little

Gold Coast cocoa farmers have Akufo has one and a half heres been faced, with no cocoa beans of cocoa, about 300 trees they to self and; £38 15s. to see him look rather like young horse through seven years, apart from of chestnut

trees-works the plot any catch crops he can raise in himself with the help of his the interim. matters young wife, Abena (her name

Cutting out means Barn on Tuesday).

Lust year Akufa's cocoa trees It has been estimated, that'

The most deplorable habit

name as

is that of attacking the re- French" are painfully obvious duction front a pre-war average years would be faced, as many |

of

in the retorts evoked, some of which we took the liberty removing..

The

over half that.

of dried cocoa there

сосод

putation of the troops as a whole on the basis of the acts of a few. It is simply not true that "almost every other

main object edition" of this paper carries letters to the Editor is to a report about soldiers hav. draw attention to ing committed certain crimes that seem wrong and need Nor is it true that the British correction; not to create bad yielded 400.

were 500,000,000 troops here are noted for feelings unnecessarily. We beans, which he sold for £17 trees in the Gold Coast Colony. their bad behaviour. There cannot allow our standards of Os. 6d. Besides cocoa, he has To date nearly 8,000,000 have some palm trees, whose oil helps' been cut out to check swollen are bound to be incidents now right and wrong to be in his income, but he thinks of him shoot, and it is calculated that another 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 and then, especially when a fluenced by the present crisis, self primarily as a cocoa farmer. soldier has had too much to though this crisis may affect bean prices, sky-high during the

Two things puzzle him. Cocoa trees are infected.

Last year, during the troubles drink. Actually there seems the future of every one of us, war, are slumping, but the prices In the colony, cutting out was to be very little of that, too, both in Hong Kong and the of the day-to-day things Akufo stopped, but now it has been re- so far as our own observation world at large. But this is has to buy are not coming down. started with compulsory powers, And here are agitators from (and is going, at the rate of goes. Indeed many visitors, pre-eminently not the time to who know something of the set class against class, face the towns telling Akufo that he 250,000 fallings a month.

being chiselled; that the Gold The position is more than seri-. Tikes the cutting- unprecedented size of the against race, and soldier Coast Cocon. Marketing Board, ous. No one garrison, must be surprised at against civilian. It would be which buys all his beans, are out policy. The farmers hate it. But the experts have warned that how inconspicuous the soldier a good thing, too, it more making a mug out of him,

Vainly, the C.M.B. explains that if cutting-out is stopped, and really is in this city.

world prices are down-last year swollen shoot gets its head, there the. price crashed trom £200 to may not be a single cocon tree less than £100 a ton--that it is left in the Gold Coast Colony maintaining a reserve to be avail within 20 years. able to help him if the bottom falls out of the market.

people had the courage to It is inevitable, of course, publish their views under that one soldier charged with their own names. That, is, for rape will get much publicity example, a characteristic of

Unless of course, science finds specific for the virus that and the thousands who be the correspondence in many

And causes, swollen shoot. Intenso 're- have themselves get none of the great metropolitan The loud voices search to going on, and it is vital; But the public is expected to papers. And correspondents The agitators tell him that for the future of Akufo and for maintain a sense of propor- | must try.. and remember the tion. The Governor, when he rule that name, and address reviewed the 40th - Division, must accompany letters for some ten weeks ago, em publication."

the cocoa beans c be sold for your taste for chocolate, that a 2170k od were sold across remedy should be found, L the counters in the shops in a Human. Kootnota from!Akufo: Britain (5) after ““processing, of He has never, insted chocolate.or courge, for £15 or 230 Coco.

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